The Trans Continental Railroad
What was the primary motivation for building the Transcontinental Railroad?
To connect the East Coast to the West Coast, facilitating trade and travel.
Who were the three most prominent industrialists of the Gilded Age? (Choose one) What business practice did many industrialists use to gain control of their industries?
Who is Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Monopolies
What was the name of the law that restricted Chinese immigration to the United States?
Chinese Exclusion Act
What were the investigative journalists who exposed corruption and social ills called?
Muckrakers
What event sparked the start of World War I? Was the United States involved right away?
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. No
What was the primary goal of the Homestead Act of 1862?
To encourage westward expansion by providing free land to settlers.
What is social darwinism
The belief that the wealthy were naturally superior to the poor, often used to justify inequality
What was the prejudice against immigrants called? What were some of the economic concerns that fueled nativist sentiment?
Nativism. Fear of job competition
What were the three main goals of the Progressive Movement? (Choose one)
Social justice, economic reform, and political democracy
What were the two main groups of allies going into World War One?
Triple Alliance: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
Triple Entente: Britain, France, Russia
What was one way the U.S. government attempted to assimilate Native Americans?
Establishing boarding schools
What were the factors that pulled people to the United States? (Choose two)
Economic opportunities, religious freedom, and political freedom
What was the name of the ship that exploded in Havana Harbor, sparking the Spanish-American War? What were the consequences of the Spanish-American War for the United States?
USS Maine. Acquisition of territories like the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam
What constitutional amendment prohibited the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol? What movement aimed to make the sale, production, and transportation of alcohol in the United States illegal?
18th Amendment. The Temperance Movement.
What was the name of the government agency that coordinated war production?
War Industries Board
Why did we see the emergence of Sheriffs and Marshalls with westward expansion
The need to maintain law and order. Increased crime and harsher conditions
What were the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South? What supreme court case upheld 'separate but equal?'
Jim Crow Laws, Plessy v. Ferguson
What was the policy that asserted the U.S. right to intervene in Latin American affairs? What policy did it further explain?
Roosevelt Corollary. Monroe Doctrine
What amendment to the Constitution established a federal income tax?
16th Amendment
What was the plan proposed by Woodrow Wilson at the end of World War One
What was the fourteen points plan
What were some tecnological developments of Westward expansion
Railroad, Steam engine, Telegraph, and Lightbulb
What were the working conditions like for many women in the workforce?
Long hours, low wages, and dangerous environments
What was the name of Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policy? What were the three main principles of Theodore Roosevelt's plan?
Square Deal. Conservation of natural resources, protection of consumers, and control of corporations
What amendment granted women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
What were the reasons for the United States joining World War One? What was their involvement in the War prior to joining with the military?
German Submarine attacks on civilian ships, and the Zimmerman Telegraph. The United States was heavily involved in trade and manufacturing